‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I had a potential use case for an LLM. Built it. Doesn't reliably work. It sometimes works but anyone can do sometimes. I use a computer for the task because it's consistent in the face of boring tasks.

  So far the only thing I've found LLMs are good for are tasks that have no value.

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• GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  AI is the 2020s version of Tulip Mania. It’s just fancy Google that elaborates, but you can’t trust the results it gives you, because it lies worse than my five year old on his way back from a late night trip to the cookie jar. It makes funny pictures of Mario committing 9/11 and all sorts of useless funny stuff that has kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds with hot dogs for fingers. Which is great and all, but I can’t figure the last time I actually needed a picture of kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds…

  And it sucks and you can always tell when something’s AI because it’s crap. Boomers can’t, but they also can’t do most other things, so I mean that’s not really a reliable metric of its actual success either.

  Boomer fuel is all it is. The new paperless society. It’s going to take my job, except my job will be on my doorstep a month later begging me to come back.

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s just fancy Google that elaborates, but you can’t trust the results it gives you, because it lies

    That’s a contradiction: either it’s “fancy Google”, or “it lies”. Can’t have both at the same time.

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    • AbraNidoran@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It will give summaries of search results with links (fancy Google), but also those summaries will be inaccurate (it lies)

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  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ehh, I don’t like the tulip comparison because that situation had nothing to do with hating the working class. The AI craze can only be reasonably explained by a deep contempt and hatred for workers. The capital class is so desperate to replace us that they will jump on any opportunity to do so.

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• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The trend with AI seems to be that the folks with zero talent—the ones that have never poured themselves into a single cathartic creative, discovery, or research process once in their lives—are the ones pushing AI the hardest. AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed. The only “problem” execs see is that they have too big of a headcount and need to reduce that ASAP so that they can pump out more soulless slop.

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  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed.

    The problem has existed and it is one of the core contradictions inherent to capitalism: that the wealthy see our wages as their lost profits while in reality their profits are unpaid surplus value of our labor… There isn’t a path forward with a capitalist system because the capital class will never stop trying to commodify every aspect of society and they will never stop trying to replace us with machines or cheap foreign slave labor

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• verdigris@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah this is a big reason why I’m not trying to get back into software dev. It seems like every job not already threatened or eliminated by AI is training or using it.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The company I slave for hasn’t incorporated AI too much yet. But the way it actually has used AI made me question if we could have just used a computer program instead. None of it has been used in a way that seems game changing

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